Peter L. Berghold

Perl Monk, Brewer, BBQ Pitmaster, Dog Trainer, Jack of All Trades

There's me. In that picture I just found out about a gang of miscreants
that write Perl s‎crip‎ts without use strict;, insist on
reinventing the wheel and other violations of Perl Best Practices.

All kidding aside: I've been a Perl programmer since around 1989 when I
first got a hold of the Perl source code as a collection of UUENCODEd
SHAR files and decided to try it out on an HP9000/850 that I was
responsible for back in the day. I fell in love with the language at first
try and found that a lot of my system administration s‎crip‎ts could be
improved by eliminating all the pipes to things like grep, awk, tr, sed,
eh.. you get the idea.

A coworker of mine turned me on to Perl Monks around January of 2001 and I"ve
been hanging out here ever since. Not as active as I once was (real life gets
in the way) but I drop in every now and then and see what is happening here.

Currently (as of August 15, 2011) I am employed by EasyLink Services (company page) in the internet
support group. (Update: Easylink is now owned by OpenText) Best part of this job besides the technical challenges is the fact that it is three minutes from my home.

Currently I work at AT&T Middletown Research on Laurel Ave. This gig is thirty minutes from my house. Got an office with a door that closes and everything!

In my private life: I'm married to a lady that I've been with since 1975 and
have two children that I'm immensly proud of. My daughter who is a hands on
educational aid to special needs children and my son who is currently following
in his father's footsteps and is serving in the US Navy.

I'm a US Navy veteran and a Past Post Commander of Post 346 Department
of New Jersey American Legion.

As one of my main hobbies I brew beer. My preferred styles are in the
family of Belgian Ales, with Farmhouse Ales being my favorite. I also brew
stouts, heffeweisen and other styles.

My other main hobby is an interest that I share with my wife. We both
train dogs for the sport of dog agility. An adicting hobby if there ever
was one. My current performance dog is an Australian Cattle Dog who was born
in May of 2008. He's a fun loving dog who wants to please no matter what.

I have a bunch of other interests as well, but I want to keep this short.
Message me if you want to get to know me better.

Other places you'll find me:

URL

What is it?

100% work safe?

http://saltycowdawg.deviantart.com/gallery/

My DeviantArt Gallery

NOSome nudity and strong sexual themes

http://blog.berghold.net

Politically incorrect ravings of a middle aged curmudgeon.

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http://science-fiction.berghold.net

My online notebook for my science fiction writing projects and some short stories